G.A. Henty Quotes
The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.
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In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
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'Bird and beast and stone and star - we are all one, all one -' murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children. 'Child and serpent, star and stone - all one.'
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People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
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It often happens that we are most touched by what we are least capable of. Evanescent delicacy is not the quality in the arts that I admire most, but it is often the characteristic by which I am most reduced to envy.
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Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
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The starters are just going to go three innings at the beginning of the tournament. But we think the strength of our team is the relievers.
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The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.
